Autoresponders are a perfect way to increase traffic 
to your site. They can save many valuable hours by 
automatically answering emails concerning frequently 
asked questions about a service or product or by 
sending a welcome letter to new members of your 
program. There are many ways that autoresponders can 
help your business. One of the most important is 
their ability to track the effectiveness of your 
promotions. Since autoresponders are one of the most 
popular marketing tools available today, they are 
being used by a lot of different kinds of business and 
websites. Some of these take advantage of the system 
to use the autoresponders in a negative manner. You 
should be aware of some of the "Golden Rules" when 
using autoresponders.

Thou Shalt Not Use an Autoresponder Address When 
Submitting to Search Engines.

Since you will most likely submit your site to search 
engines such as Google or Yahoo!, directories, 
classifieds, and free for all sites, you should be 
made aware of the fact that these sites commonly use 
an autoresponder as well. If you were to use your 
autoresponder to contact these companies, their 
autoresponder will reply to yours, and so on and so on, 
thus, creating a cycle of auto-responses that will 
flood your email box and theirs as well.

Thou Shalt Not Use an Autoresponder to Subscribe to 
Ezines or Discussion Forums.

Since most of the time an Ezine will send you updates 
and new information regularly, your autoresponder 
will send them a message each time. In a discussion 
forum, every person in the discussion forum will 
receive your auto-response. This can be irritating 
and most of the time you will be unsubscribed. It is 
often hard for the administrators of the forum or 
ezine to determine who is using the autoresponse, and 
therefore it is simply common courtesy to never use an 
autoresponder in this manner.

Thou Shalt Not Use an Autoresponder to Take Advantage 
Of Unsuspecting Individuals.

Some very unprofessional companies will use 
autoresponders to respond to an automated message. 
When this is done, the address in the "from" field will
automatically be subscribed to their mailing list. This 
is an extremely unethical use of autoresponders, and 
those who do it are in jeopardy of creating a very 
negative image for themselves and their company. 
Rather than promoting the service or business, this 
usually leads to people becoming very upset and 
spreading a negative word about the company rather 
than a good one.

The Internet can be a great place to do business and 
autoresponders can be an excellent way to save time. 
However, when used in an unprofessional way, they can 
lead to frustration and aggravation for others. Your 
company will suffer the loss of much business if you 
choose to participate in these abusive practices. The 
appropriate use of autoresponders can generate a 
large amount of business, while inappropriate use can 
drive away that business.  

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